skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if we sold daily short-term use items with sealed AA/AAA with the amount of sales as disposable vapes, we'd be having the same discussion about AA/AAA batteries now. But we don't. Aside from anomalies like, say, the Gameboy or Game Gear, traditional batteries are used in things like remotes or smoke detectors, where you might need to replace the batteries every few months.
I was wondering what the catch was :-)

GPLv3 reimplementation linked in that thread: https://github.com/joeedh/pigment-painter
I personally thought the AS/400 was midrange. That's how a co-worker characterized it when he left us to work on OS/400 development (way back in the 1980s).

IBM's own "History of AS/400" web page sort of implies it's midrange:

"For the first time, small businesses, city governments and other medium-size enterprises could set up their own computer networks and connect them to workstations, printers, file servers and even other networks — all running four times faster than what was previously possible."

Maybe System i is more mainframe-y than the original AS/400.

The question got me looking at old AS/400 manuals on bitsavers, and there is some interesting stuff. From the AS/400 handbook:

- Layered machine architecture. This insulates users from
hardware characteristics. It enables them to move to new
hardware technology at any time, without disrupting their
application programs.

- Single-level storage. Main storage and disk storage appear
contiguous. An object is saved or restored on the system via a
device-independent addressing mechanism

- Operating System, OS/400, is a single entity, fully integrating all
the software components (relational database, communications
and networking capabilities, etc.)
That quote reads like a land acknowledgement.
FDR, Stalin, and Churchill all won that war. History is super messy!
We already did this for cookie consent so apparently it's possible.
> and is a one-time payment

Well technically it's like a "subscription with indeterminate renewal cycle". Every few years they release a new major version and sometimes you have to pay to upgrade.

Of course you can choose to not upgrade... but then you don't get the new features, and it's unclear if the old version will support all newer macOS releases.
Yes I am aware that new development/upzoning often increases nearby land values while at the same time putting downward pressure on market rents. See Mast et al’s work from the Upjohn Institute. I am very aware that homeowners (at least those that outright own the land underneath their house i.e not condo owners) stand to financially benefit by selling to developers who put in higher density housing. My remarks about money were not directed at them. Existing homeowners simply oppose new housing of all sorts. Please reread.

Look, I live in Boston. I have also lived in Rittenhouse square. I know the buildings you speak of intimately. I suggest you do something that I have personally have done several times: go to local city council meeting about a beautiful new housing development proposal. Observe how vehemently neighbors oppose the construction of this gorgeous new multifamily housing development. They complain about parking, too much traffic, too much noise, a burden on the school system, the wrong sort of people, blah, blah, blah… it never ends. These people simply don’t want new homes near them. See Katherine Einstein’s “Neighborhood Defenders” to get an overview of this phenomena.

As I said, your focus on aesthetics is a distraction. The road forward is either to appeal to the personal economic interests of the three groups I mentioned, or pray the SCOTUS overturns Euclid vs. Ambler.
Western oligarch media has been running China collapse stories for decades.
I think it’s native (rust) on Linux. The OP is probably referring to subscription and dropping support for syncing via. Dropbox.
Another option for Linux (and Windows) is Portmaster. https://safing.io/
> 1 EUR = 1.95583 BAM/BGN, so just multiply/divide by 2

Why didn't they just set the peg to 2?
Yup. We have seen time and again that companies don't need a "technical moat" to stay in the lead. First mover advantage and a 1-2 year head start is always enough. Of course they also need to keep their foot on the gas and not let their product get overtaken. With all the talent OpenAI has I'm pretty sure they will manage.
I can't remember whether it was Dell or Compaq that had non-standard power supply wiring in their PCs many, many years ago. This game isn't new.
They are trying to avoid that. I hang around there pretty much. I expect premium services subscriptions will be the first try. If that works, and I think it could, that will be fine. The fact of it being a public benefit LLC makes the profitability requirement much less pressing.

Also, there will be revenue opportunities from being the canonical AT Proto first mover. It’s way too early to tell, or worry.
What's special about Coolidge?
Maybe. You'll frequently find many stores/communities/services saying "hotmail/yahoo/___ users, we haven't been getting your emails" because those services aren't quite as big as Gmail and are getting spam-holed or whatever. I'm sure spam filtering already gives a major hit to free email services. If a mail server started up that explicitly permits in its ToS propagation of hate speech and terrorist threats, it's probably going to get blocklisted by all major email services, no?
I wonder if something like Origami can help scale production
and if a crease-able but insulating material even exists
Critical thinking is not one of HN's fortes.

(Arguing about engineering pedantries is, but that is something different.)
Imagine the entire machine coming to a halt, ignoring input, and making grinding noises for 5-10 seconds. That's what saving a small file was like in the floppy disk era. If that was happening randomly while you're trying to type something, you'd go crazy.
Shelters in Toronto are full and unable to house everyone in need on a daily basis
Your follow list is public on Twitter as well. But BlueSky being designed to be federated ends up exposing a whole lot of data which should probably be private.

The block issue could probably be resolved by a 3rd party server which could let you still follow users who have blocked you. All this data is publicly available on the api. Obviously they wouldn't see your posts still.
I'm realising that this is CBC's "lite" website, similar to those of CNN (<https://lite.cnn.com>) and NPR (<https://text.npr.org/>).

Mind that these aren't perfect (I've been working on an improved, "sanified", CNN extractor, as described here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42535359>), but are a breath of fresh air compared with bloated sites, and almost always work well with terminal-mode browsers (w3m, lynx, elinks2, etc.)

CBC have release notes for this site (launched in 2021), here:

<https://medium.com/cbc-digital-labs/cbc-lite-release-notes-c...>
> If I want a bank that specializes in loans for PNW fishing boats, that exists, and they are able to competitively price a loan that BoA won’t even consider.

What's the specialty here, risk assessment?
> Blaming Kennedy is a take I hadn't heard before.

It was a broadly established take, and the reason why there's a superstition about sitting Presidents having opponents in primaries.
No, because that takes time, but that is my entire point. Claiming it is not as dangerous without actually knowing that is just, weird :/
Could you point out the text in copyright law that entitles anyone to ownership of a visual style?

Nor have I ever heard of a hardware or software tool ever being responsible for the output of the end user.

If I use a copy machine to make a duplicate of your work, is Xerox responsible? I copy your clip art in Illustrator, is Adobe the infringing party? If I make a pencil copy, are we to name Ticonderoga as a defendant? What if I coaxed the entirety of your copyrighted work out of the word suggestion engine on my phone’s keyboard?
That's maybe almost implied already.
You don’t need to blame “AI” (or LLMs specifically) for the rejection mess that, good old fashioned ATS (applicant tracking systems) already automated rejection either outright or due to selection priority, filtering for keywords or phrases, biasing towards certain more easily parseable document formats, and so on was already happening around 2018-2019, probably before.

And resume refinement representing and reformatting essentially the same information has always been a commonplace trick to improve your odds. My simple first pass resumes around that time must have never seen the light of human eyes because optimizing things around such systems, adjusting formatting, pushing docx versions, and so on increased my return response rate per submission for the exact same information. People just tend to forget they’ve gone through such processes or are moving positions through networking. The cold market has been abysmal for quite some time, even if you’re qualified.

Naysayers haven’t been submitting to cold options I suspect which is why the trend has always been denial. But with mass layoffs, people are having to resort to cold application processes and finally experiencing at scale how terrible the process has been.
Off the topic: I am also in favor of minimalist.

In the case of AlphaGeometry, I made AlphaGeometryRE to get rid of tensorflow/jax/flax, and 100+ Python packages.
And yet we wanted to double our H1B count?
The UI is Electron, especially on Linux as it was the move to Electron that allowed them to do a Linux port. The data layer is all Rust and shared widely across their ecosystem as I understand it.

Honestly the whole UI thing was overblown. It's a great Electron app, and their macOS app was always a little iffy (old AppKit oddities). The port unlocked: Linux, a fully featured Windows client, noticeably faster improvements (Watchtower, family sharing, improved SSH and CLI support), and seems to have allowed for much better apps on iOS and Android, all at likely no user cost.
"San Francisco Housing Affordability At 2019 Levels"
I’m nervous that they’ll have poor or defective BMSes and catch fire.
fyi mastodon.social is by far the biggest (almost sole) source of spam, thus more and more servers are "limiting" it (as opposed to outright blocking/defederating) so people only see posts from users they explicitly follow from that server.
Spotify hires creators to create content that Spotify owns, then uses their platform to push it onto their own playlists. They aren't subbing out real artists songs for ghost artists when you ask for a specific song.

Literally the exact same thing that every video streaming service is doing. Isn't Netflix the biggest production company on earth at this point. At least if its a cover of a song the original artist still gets royalties.
it is extremely difficult to make this into an election issue - impossible to explain to “joe voter”
https://www.swift.org/blog/announcing-swift-homomorphic-encr...

https://github.com/apple/swift-homomorphic-encryption

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/homomorphic-encry...

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Apple_PSI_System_Secu...
Lowe is known and (probably rightly, on average) lauded for his frankness in light of his expertise. He's sort of the chemistry equivalent of a Raymond Chen or John Carmack. I like him a lot overall, but I think he badly failed to "read the room" in this particular case.
I wonder if there is any keyboard option without a brain dead DEL key location between left shift and Z, and please also with a trackpoint? Other than that this looks like a very worthy purchase.
That's a very small price to pay for what we all stand to gain.

I pay for o1-pro cheerfully, but I wouldn't pay anything at all for Stack Overflow. ChatGPT certainly generates its share of BS, but I have yet to have a question rejected because somebody who was using a different language or OS asked about something vaguely similar 8 years ago.
>From what? Trying to think very hard what geographical region Iceland is in that has those initials but I'm coming up blank

Sorry to shatter your illusions, but geographically speaking Iceland is as much a part of North America as it is of Europe. <https://www.funiceland.is/nature/geology/tectonic-plates/
very well designed! how does this work? in the sense that i didn't have to copy/paste any keys and yet this is offering paid models for free.
It's someone looking at the EMTALA requirement for emergency departments to provide stabilization without regard to ability to pay without also realizing that the US has public health insurance for the medically indigent.
Sorry, what does that have to do with an OpenAI tech moat?
We will at some point have a JS API to run preliminary LLM to make local decisions, then the server will be final arbiter. So for example a comment rage moderator can help an end user change their proposed post while they write it, to help them not turn the comment into rage bate. This will be done best locally on the users browser. Then when they are ready to post, one final check by the server would be done. This would be like today's React front ends doing all the state and UI computation, reducing servers from having to render HTML, for example.
I agree with you that AS/400/i has always been called mid-range. I was actually referring to NonStop as usually being called "mainframe" not mid-range, or mini-computer, at least the early pre-RISC models. It's another interesting computer architecture.

For more on the AS/400, there's a book by the lead architect of it, Frank Soltis on archive.org that goes into a lot of detail. It is really quite different from anything else.

https://archive.org/details/insideas4000000solt/mode/2up

EDIT: bitsavers has a bunch of Tandem (NonStop) stuff as well.
Resellers of Clevo barebones offer a fair bit of flexibility to spec the system to order. It's not full freedom to mix and match, but still quite flexible. The price is that it is far less sleek, bulkier and heavier than most other laptops.
Saving did take time, but multitasking was a rarity, as was multithreading. Machines only had so much spare cpu and ram, too.

I'd expect autosave to prevent typing, which would bogart the workflow. I can envision doing quick incremental saves, maybe, but then you'd probably get jittery behaviour.

If we're talking mid 80s, something like the c64 would need assembly to handle anything like that I'd think.

I remember writing a BBS in basic, and just typing for an afternoon and running out of ram. I had to create separate modules for the up/download area, the message board, file transfer, and so on, all loaded off of... there was a commodore 1M floppy drive I used.
I wrote the tweet that Brandur quoted...

I think the bigger shifts are that developers use Checkout more, and complete more admin tasks in Stripe's Dashboard. By providing end-user UX (for both customers and backoffice), Stripe has reduced the API surface area that most developers need to consume. These changes end up having no impact on them.
The controversial Greater Israel army patch seen in Gaza includes Sinai and the western banks of the Red Sea as well as a bunch of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Of course the end point of expansion is likely not predetermined.
> toolkits do come with full multiplatform renderers with capabilities not too dissimilar to a browser

This is correct. But a menu does not need the entire set of capabilities of a toolkit like GTK4 or Qt6. It might take as much as Xlib or GL, which give you a way to draw simple shapes and text over a full-screen transparent window.

Most importantly, they usually do not include a bunch of things Javascript engines and even mere https clients, at least not easily accessible. (Though e.g. conformant XML parsers are always a hazard. And of course Qt6 does include a JS engine, but hopefully it's a bit more isolated.)
> It has consistently been about illegal immigration.

Not Trump. He’s been opposed to immigration from the ‘wrong” countries, regardless of legality.
> It’s essential for every macOS user

Is it? I'm interested in hearing why. I've been using macOS for ~15 years, so very familiar with Little Snitch. I think I owned a version many years ago but haven't for a long time. I don't really see what I'd use it for. I don't run dodgy software, I don't want to partially break the software I do run by nit picking what connections it can make as that wouldn't improve my experience and would most likely cause issues. I also mostly trust Apple's anti-malware efforts to protect me from other software I don't want to run, but if I didn't I'd run better anti-malware software before a firewall.
Cool - that sounds a bit like our NHS.

You also said "What will happen to the bills?" - what does that mean?

Cheers
Jon
I was alive in the 1970's and I can tell you that aside from a Time magazine article, Global cooling was not a broadly feared effect.
I have no idea how the other commenter could come to the conclusion that Steam is trivially replaceable.
Patient acquisition costs, perhaps?
The Republican Party platform:

> We support the full implementation of the Iraq Liberation Act, which should be regarded as a starting point in a comprehensive plan for the removal of Saddam Hussein and the restoration of international inspections in collaboration with his successor. Republicans recognize that peace and stability in the Persian Gulf is impossible as long as Saddam Hussein rules Iraq.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060421063832/http://www.cnn.co...

While Bush tried to portray himself as more isolationist, his advisors and appointees were not inline with those campaign promises, and indeed the history confirms that impression:

> “From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go,” O’Neill said in the interview with “60 Minutes.”

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-jan-11-fg-oneil...

Similarly, in March of 2001 they were trying to line up companies interested in taking over Iraq’s oil production.

> Despite oil industry denials to Congress and Cheney’s claims of executive privilege–which led to a lawsuit that ultimately reached the Supreme Court–White House visitor logs revealed that Cheney’s Energy Policy Task Force met with approximately 300 groups and individuals from February to April 2001. The vast majority of these meetings were with representatives of the fossil fuels industry.

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/18216-national-security-a...

https://www.judicialwatch.org/oldsite/IraqOilFrgnSuitors.pdf
I think a general problem with most of these problems is that they’re biased towards how big US tech companies recruit.

However non-tech companies also want to assess coding skills but don’t care about algorithms & data structures.

A bunch of programmers today are not software engineers but analysts, data scientists, data engineers. So it might be worthwhile to examine how to access these applicants‘ skills.

For example for DS roles more Kaggle like real life problems might be suited better.
There are doubts about Melania’s immigration status. She may have worked under the wrong visa and lied about it when filing for naturalization, which would make her an illegal immigrant as well.
> Mastodon is absolutely not dead,

It sucks though, I don't know ONE normal person who's on Mastodon.
Just tried this with an interpersonal situation I'm going through. The default seems to be Claude 3.5 Sonnet and ChatGPT-4o. I got the results I've come to expect from those two, with the latter better at non-programming kinds of prompts.

The app presented the option of prompting additional models, including Gemini Flash 2.0, one I'd never used before. It gave the best response and was surprisingly good.

Curious to know how Chorus is paying for the compute, as I was expecting to have to use my own API keys.
The premise of my disagreement is that privacy-preserving schemes should get some outside validation by experts before being turned on as a default. Those experts don’t have to be me, there are plenty of people I trust to check Apple’s work. But as far as I can tell, most of the expert community is learning about this the same way that everyone else is. I just think that’s a bad way to approach a deployment like this.
> I'd be much more impressed if we could run software like Little Snitch on iOS

You can; or, at least, the APIs are available for this, and have been for some time.

> or install Firefox

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-private-safe-browser/i...

Inb4 "you cannot replace the built-in browser engine"

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/browserenginekit

> Or even just side load apps without pay $100/year

Then use an Android. Apple has taken a stance on this since it was formed. If you don't know by now that Apple is actively hostile toward hobbyists with their approach to computing, I can't help you. That is why there are alternatives from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and so many others.

To others (me), this is a feature. I would rather the $100/yr fee exist for several reasons.
I know the admin of my server and all moderators personally. I'm not sure what your point is. The people who run services you use can mess with your stuff - in WoW a GM stole items from my guild's guild bank using the account of a guildmate who was permabanned, for example.
> I'm not sure that they are going to run non-CBTC trains through the new tunnel.

The old trains wouldn’t work with the platform doors, so no. But the other way around: those lines continue beyond the tunnels on the surface, and some of those surface sections may be shared by both old and new trains, which would require some form of interoperability between CBTC and non-CBTC, until they move the whole network to CBTC.

Also, I would expect that maintenance trains (track inspection, etc) will likely be shared between CBTC and non-CBTC and so have to support both
No, it’s a very real threat. Icelandic waters can only be fished by Icelandic vessels. That’s what the cod wars were about; protecting our right to be the only ones to fish our waters.

If we join the EU we’re pretty much guaranteed to lose this exclusive access to our waters, and that will be devastating for the economy, given how the fishing industry is one of very few industries keeping the economy afloat. Especially considering exports to other countries.
In high school many of us were deep into math.
You're skeptical a car can work without an app, I provided an example of why that isn't the case.
From my memory that would have been intrusive to the user. Saving a file meant the computer was saving the file and doing nothing else.
Are you deliberately ignoring the content of my comments?

I am not denying that these people exist and they hold outsized power. I am claiming that we need to build a coalition to defeat them, and that is impossible to achieve when we keep building hideous bullshit. The people we actually need to activate are the vast majority of people who have no equity stake in their neighborhoods but have significant stake in the lifestyle their neighborhoods support.

Appealing to the personal economic interests of those three groups has demonstrably not worked. The masses (with no equity stakes) are more easily mobilized by NIMBYs/landed interests against big evil developers because big "evil" developers visibly degrade neighborhoods.

The non-equity-growth argument for more development is totally nonexistent, so non-equity holders (again the vast majority of people in high COL areas) have zero motivation to join your side.

+1 on overturning Euclid, but I don't see a path to that.
> So no third party, including law enforcement can access data held by apple? Including apple? At any point?

Correct. iMessage already delivered the features you are describing. The features described here are even stronger, since there is no centralized key escrow.